Language, material culture, fiction, cultural studies, more. Anything related to 6th – 10th centuries, anywhere in the world.
Jesse Arlen deposited “‘Let us Mourn Continuously:’ John Chrysostom and the Early Christian Transformation of Mourning,” in Studia Patristica Vol LXXXIII, Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015, Vol 9: Emotions, eds. M. Vinzent and Y. Papadogiannakis (Leuven: Peeters, 2017): 289–312. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days agoAn examination of Mourning and Tears in the works of John Chrysostom, with comparison to his classical and hellenistic predecessors (Aristotle, Seneca, Plutarch).
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Jesse Arlen deposited Armenian Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days agoAn article on the Armenian manuscripts at the Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana).
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Jesse Arlen deposited Gišeroy kc‘urdk‘ (Hymns of the Night): Seven Madrāše of Ephrem the Syrian Preserved in Armenian in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days agoA translation and study of seven hymns (madrashe) on vigil of Ephrem the Syrian preserved in Classical Armenian.
Thijs Porck deposited Vergrijzing in een Oudengels heldendicht. De rol van oude koningen in de Beowulf in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoIn this article, I suggest Beowulf should be read as a mirror of princes for elderly kings.
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Thijs Porck deposited Eald enta geweorc: De Romeinen in vroegmiddeleeuws Engeland (ca. 450-1100) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoA short article about the Nachleben of the Romans and classical antiquity in Anglo-Saxon England.
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Thijs Porck deposited How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThis article discusses the development of the spelling for the name of Cnut the Great, Viking king of England from 1016 to 1035, from to . The origin of this disyllabic spelling is uncertain and has been attributed to taboo deflection, the simplification of the consonant cluster /kn/ in English and even a pope’s inability to pronounce the name C…[Read more]
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Thijs Porck deposited Treasures in a Sooty Bag? A Note on Durham Proverb 7 in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThis note calls attention to a precursor of the Latin text of Durham Proverb 7 in the ninth-century Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae and, in doing so, sheds some light on the unresolved relationship between the Old English and Latin versions of the Durham Proverbs in general and Durham Proverb 7 in particular.
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Thijs Porck deposited Two Notes on an Old English Confessional Prayer in Vespasian D. XX in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThis note established that an Old English confessional prayer in BL Vespasian D.xx is a close analogue to the Latin text in the Book of Cerne (Cambridge University Library MS L1.1.10). These two text and two other Old English prayers in BL MS Tiberius C.i and the Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor may have sprung from a common, Latin…[Read more]
Ricky Broome deposited Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong. Edited by Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude and Carine van Rhijn. Manchester: Manchest in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis is the accepted manuscript version of my review of the edited volume Golden Middle Ages in Europe for Early Medieval Europe journal. Some wording may differ from the final published version. Please refer to the journal website.
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Ricky Broome deposited Golden Middle Ages in Europe: New Research into Early-Medieval Communities and Identities. Edited by Annemarieke Willemsen and Hanneke Kik. Brepols. 2015. 168pp. €59.00. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThis is the accepted manuscript version of my review of the edited volume Golden Middle Ages in Europe for History journal. Some wording may differ from the final published version. Please refer to the journal website.
ljs started the topic Calls for Papers in the discussion
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoHello all, I hope this acceptable to post here. This is a call for papers for the journal The Heroic Age (http://www.heroicage.org). They are initially for the 2019 International Conference on Medieval Studies but both will also be sections of the issues of the journal in 2019 and 2020.
Proposals for the 54th International Congress on Medieval…[Read more]
Nathan Gibson deposited Biblia Arabica: An Update on the State of Research in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThe aim of this contribution is to review some of the major areas of current research on the Arabic Bible, along with the factors and trends contributing to them. Also we present some of the tools that are currently under development in the Biblia Arabica team, Munich.
We provide here a very condensed survey of the transmission of traditions,…[Read more]
Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Scriptorium. Wesen – Funktion – Eigenheiten. Comité international de paléographie latine, XVIII. Kolloquium. St. Gallen 11.–14. September 2013. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, ed. A. Nievergelt et al., Munich 2015 (C.H. Beck). 584 pp. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis is a book review (pre-print) of the 2013 CIPL edited volume on scriptoria.
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Felice Lifshitz, Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia. A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8232-5687-7, 368pp. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis is a book review (pre-print) of the 2014 book by Lifshitz.
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Julia Becker, Tino Licht, Stefan Weinfurter (Hg.), Karolingische Klöster. Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation, Berlin, New York (De Gruyter) 2015, VI–307 S. (Materiale Textkulturen, 4), ISBN 9783110371239, EUR 89,95. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis is a book review (published version) of the 2015 book on Carolingian monasteries edited by Becker, Licht and Weinfurter.
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Strategies of Knowledge Organisation in Early Medieval Latin Miscellanies: The Example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388 in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis chapter examines a particular miscellany manuscript’s strategies for arranging its texts for ease of use, legibility and coherence. It argues that such manuscripts were purposefully compiled and that their texts were enhanced by others produced in the same codicological context, showing that early medieval book-making was an innovative and…[Read more]
Evina Steinova deposited A Fragment of a Ninth-Century Liturgical Book in the Holdings of Utrecht University Library in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe subject of this paper is a fragment of a liturgical book that is a part of the manuscript fragment collection in the holdings of the Utrecht University Library Special Collections. The fragment was brought to light in the 1960s, after it was rebound into a manuscript belonging to the St. Paul’s Abbey, Utrecht, where it was inserted during t…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury School in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 9 months, 4 weeks agoManuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298 contains an as yet unexamined fragment of the second batch of the gospel glosses (EvII) from the biblical commentaries of the Canterbury School inserted as an addition in 3r of the manuscript. In this article, I describe this fragment, and I attempt to contextualize its insertion into the…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Technical Signs in Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied in Irish Minuscule in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 10 months agoBesides glosses and other textual annotations, early medieval Latin manuscript commonly feature technical signs, annotation symbols and sigla that reflect readership or provide a framework for interpretation and use. The early medieval Insular book users were particularly keen on using such devices. This article maps the usage of technical signs…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The prehistory of the Latin Acts of Peter (BHL 6663) and the Latin Acts of Paul (BHL 6575). Some observations about the development of the Virtutes apostolorum in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoThe extensive chains of excerpts from the Scriptures and other sources in two of the narratives prominent in the Virtutes apostolorum, the Acts of Peter (BHL 6663) and the Acts of Paul (BHL 6575) are studied in order to come to a clearer understanding of the origin of these Latin texts. The Virtutes apostolorum is an amalgam of textual material…[Read more]
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